Margaret Parton (1915 – 1981) was an American author, critic, and journalist. Her parents were journalists, prominent in their day: Lemuel F. Parton, and Mary Field Parton.
Her career was long and eventful, including a great deal of crime and foreign reporting, and contact with many influential personalities in literary, political and legal affairs.
From the mid 1940s, she was a
beat writer for the ''
New York Herald Tribune
The ''New York Herald Tribune'' was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966. It was created in 1924 when Ogden Mills Reid of the '' New York Tribune'' acquired the '' New York Herald''. It was regarded as a "writer's newspaper" and compet ...
'' in Asia, working first in India and later in Japan.
Her three autobiographical works were ''Laughter on the Hill'', 1945, which dealt with her Bohemian experiences in San Francisco; ''The Leaf and the Flame'' describing her experience as a journalist in India at the time of the assassination of
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...
; and her final autobiography: ''Journey Through A Lighted Room'' 1973
An extensive collection of her papers is accessible at the
University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives: Margaret Parton papers.
References
1885 births
1981 deaths
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American journalists
American foreign correspondents
New York Herald Tribune people
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